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Important update from TheSchoolRun
For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.
What this means for subscribers:
- Your subscription is still active, and for now, you can keep using the website as normal — just log in with your usual details to access all our articles and resources*.
- In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
- As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.
A few changes to be aware of:
- The Learning Journey weekly email has ended, but your child’s plan will still be updated on your dashboard each Monday. Just log in to see the recommended worksheets.
- The 11+ weekly emails have now ended. We sent you all the remaining emails in the series at the end of March — please check your inbox (and spam folder) if you haven’t seen them. You can also follow the full programme here: 11+ Learning Journey.
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for being part of our journey it’s been a privilege to support your family’s learning.
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Ks2 worksheets
Free worksheets: Science, KS2, Y6
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What stores and transfers energy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one store into another. In these pictures, which items do you think use energy? Which ones store energy? Do they all store/use the same type of energy? Cut them out and sort them into groups.
Understanding friction: Build your own balloon hovercraft
When a moving surface slides on a stationary surface it rubs against it, which slows it down. This is due to friction, a force which resists the movement of one object sliding past another. Understand more about friction with a fantastic practical project: make your own balloon hovercraft!
Super scientist quiz
Quiz questions to encourage your child to think about how scientists work and why they do the things they do.
Reaching conclusions
A worksheet showing results of an experiment with questions underneath to consider.
Changing state: evaporation
A worksheet with pictures of the process of evaporation. Children need to write in the boxes what they think is happening in each picture.
Investigate the principles of forces
This worksheet will help your child experience the basic principles of forces such as pushing/pulling, gravity, and friction.
Calculate area and perimeter
This activity encourages your child to measure your kitchen at home and then calculate its perimeter and area.
Conductors and insulators
Use this worksheet to discuss conductors and insulators with your child. See if they can work out which materials will make the bulb light up and why.
Non-reversible changes: burning
A worksheet to encourage children to think about how everyday objects change when they are lit or burnt.
Multiplication: the grid method
This worksheet clearly sets out the grid method, which is a simple way to multiply a two-digit number by another two-digit number.
Calculating ratios
This worksheet describes how to work out ratio problems. It then gives various examples of real-life problems.
Writing in the correct style
What's your child's dream holiday destination? Their task is to write a leaflet advertising it to persuade people to book their holiday there. They'll need to understand holiday-brochure writing, select the right style and write persuasively. Can their writing convince you to visit?
Boosting writing with powerful verbs
This activity will help your child identify powerful verbs and practise using them to improve their writing.
Sorting right angles
This worksheet will enable children to differentiate between right angles, angles smaller than a right angle, and angles larger than a right angle. A fun visual activity.
Fractions and shapes
A worksheet with pictorial representations of equivalent fractions for your child to work out and colour in.
Growing diary data
A worksheet showing results of an investigation into how different soils affect the growth of plants.
Estimating and measuring time
Ask your child to estimate and then accurately measure how long it takes to do everyday activities in order to practise measuring time.
Instructions on how to play a game
This worksheet encourages your child to write instructions on how to play a game for a child who does not speak English.
Moving and growing
A list of questions to prompt children into thinking further about moving and growing and the importance of the skeleton.
Comparative sizes of the Earth, sun and moon
An activity for your child to try at home to help them get a clear understanding of the comparative sizes of and distances between the Earth, Sun and moon.
Understanding physical processes
This worksheet will help your child to use first-hand experience to answer questions and to recognise that when things speed up, slow down or change direction, there is a cause.
Make a spinning top game
This activity encourages your child to explore probability, by answering questions on some given results and then making their own spinning top.
Different forces in action
This worksheet has pictures to prompt children into thinking about the different forces that are at work in everyday life. It also gives another sheet with explanations of the different forces.
Reversible changes: heating and freezing
Some examples of changes made by heating or freezing. Children need to work out whether these are reversible or non-reversible. Some can be tested at home.